Delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly

The South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly was inaugurated on 10 May 2014 and is the fruit of institutionalisation of the long-standing parliamentary cooperation between the 12 participating countries of the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

The South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP) was launched in 1996 with the aim to transform South-East Europe into a region of stability, security and cooperation in line with European integration trends, by promoting inter-dialogue and cooperation at all levels and in all areas of common interest. The following twelve countries take part in the work of the Cooperation Process as full members: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. The Republic of Serbia was included into the full scope of activities of the SEECP at the Skopje Summit in October 2000.

The SEECP Parliamentary Dimension was launched at the conference of Parliament Speakers in Athens, 15-16 October 1997, with the rising need for a more intense cooperation between the parliaments as a logical continuation of the existing cooperation at the governmental/ministerial level. Before the inauguration of the Parliamentary Assembly, the SEECP Parliamentary Dimension functioned at the level of national coordinator meetings, SEECP Parliamentary Dimension Working Group, annual conference of Parliament Speakers of SEECP participating countries, as well as international conferences on topics of interest for the SEE region.

The National Assembly’s standing delegation has four members and four substitute members, while the National Assembly Speaker is also the head of the delegation. The plenary session takes place once a year at the parliament chairing the SEECP, while the meetings of the three general committees take place once a year at the parliament the elected general committee chairperson belongs to. The Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Cooperation with headquarters in Sofia, Regional Secretariat for Cooperation with headquarters in Sarajevo and the network of national coordinators offer operational support.

The SEECP fundamental document is the Charter on Good Neighbourly Relations, Stability, Security and Cooperation in South East Europe, adopted in Bucharest in 2000.

The founding document of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly is the Declaration on the inauguration of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, adopted on 10 May 2014 in Bucharest.

Latest activities

Dr Sci. Med Darko Laketic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA Standing Committee on 16-17 March 2018, on Bled, Republic of Slovenia.

MP Marko Parezanovic, substitute member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Economy, Infrastructure and Energy on 9-10 March 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Dr Darko Laketic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Security Cooperation on 2 – 3 March 2018 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

MP Marko Parezanovic, substitute member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Social Development, Education, Research and Science on 23 - 24 February 2018 in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Dr Darko Laketic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA Standing Committee held on 16 December 2017 in Ljubljana, under the auspices of Slovenia’s chairmanship of the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

Under the auspices of the Croatian chairmanship of the South East Europe Cooperation Process, Zagreb hosted the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly Plenary Session 8-10 June 2017. National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic and delegation member Ljupka Mihajlovska took part in the Plenary Session.

Marko Parezanovic, substitute member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA Standing Committee held under the auspices of the Croatian chairmanship of the South East Europe Cooperation Process on 22 May 2017, in Opatija.

Ljupka Mihajlovska, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Social Development, Education, Research and Science on 21 April 2017, in Istanbul.

National Assembly Deputy Speaker and substitute member of the National Assembly standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly Gordana Comic took part in the meetings of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly General Committee on Economy, Infrastructure and Energy and the Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Security Cooperation, held on 17 and 18 March at the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) in Zagreb, under the auspices of Croatia’s presidency of the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

National Assembly Deputy Speaker and substitute member of the National Assembly standing delegation to SEECP PA Gordana Comic took part in the meeting of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee, on 3 December 2016, in the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) in Zagreb, under the auspices of Croatia’s presidency of the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

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public hearing on the Bill on Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Security, submitted by MP Maja Gojkovic, organized by the Environmental Protection Committee National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

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